Side effects of low testosterone in males

Intraocular pressure, glaucoma
Have you heard of DHEA
causing high IOP (intraocular pressure) or possibly temporary glaucoma. I have been taking
DHEA for about a year. I like the benefits it has provided both physically and mentally.
However my last flight physical for the military showed me having high IOP in
both eyes. Two days after
I stopped taking DHEA my pressures where back to normal.
I have not heard of this side
effect yet, and I have not seen it mentioned in the medical literature, however it is a
possibility to consider. There's a lot we don't know about the long term effects of DHEA.
If your IOP is increased again after restarting the DHEA and then returns to
normal after stopping, then that would make it quite likely that in your case it was involved.

A study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that in 2011, sedatives and hypnotics were a leading source for adverse drug events seen in the hospital setting. Approximately % of all ADEs present on admission and % of ADEs that originated during a hospital stay were caused by a sedative or hypnotic drug. [20] A second study by AHRQ found that in 2011, the most common specifically identified causes of adverse drug events that originated during hospital stays in the . were steroids, antibiotics, opiates/narcotics, and anticoagulants. Patients treated in urban teaching hospitals had higher rates of ADEs involving antibiotics and opiates/narcotics compared to those treated in urban nonteaching hospitals. Those treated in private, nonprofit hospitals had higher rates of most ADE causes compared to patients treated in public or private, for-profit hospitals. [21]

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